Re: [silk] Google Targeted ads - gmail (fwd from rishab@dxm.org)
hi,
Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the
mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail
doesn't appear to be practical.
Sarad.
--- Eugen Leitl
Ok, that does it. I am now convinced that Google is
At 09:17 17/03/2005, Biju Chacko wrote: the new "Big
Brother". Next to Gabin's reply to my mail was an ad for a program at Manipal University.
For those you don't know, Gabin and I became friends at Manipal.
/me is impressed. Google knows *everything*.
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On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:17:46AM -0800, Sarad AV wrote:
hi,
Maybe it was just a bot parsing the contents of the mail. Cannot say for sure. Reading every ones g-mail doesn't appear to be practical.
Did you miss the part where Google unofficially admitted storing queries for good? Given their attidude, and storage, they're storing *anything* they can. Everyone is using Google. Not just for searching; Orkut and Google local, News, AdWords, Gmail, what have you. You don't have to run it, you can just read over their shoulders to get a really detailed profile on any user. Or subpoena stuff on some selected users. Now here's your one stop shop for evil. A position for Google minister for propaganda is about to be posted, so I hear. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
On Apr 1, 2005 10:57 AM, Eugen Leitl
Now here's your one stop shop for evil. A position for Google minister for propaganda is about to be posted, so I hear.
Let's get this straight. It's not evil if people are voluntarily agreeing to it! Maybe you're being facetious but you undermine the significance of true evil by applying the word to voluntary relationships. Cypherpunks should support noncoercive information relationships because they give users the option to protect their own privacy. Nobody is forced to use Google, and technology exists to allow it to be used in a privacy protecting way. True evil would be a system which takes away your options and forces you to interact in a way that prevents you from protecting yourself. Google is 180 degrees removed from such an approach. CP
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